Cloth-cleaner



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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM c. MEYER, OF soUTrIvAL nJo, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTH-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,659, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed April 2'7, 1867..

To aZZ whom itmay concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. MEYER, of South Vallejo, Solano county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Cloth-Cleaners; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to the class of devices for cleaning cloth, and especially to those used in flour-mills for cleaning the fiannel of the dust-collectors and the silk of the boltingreels; and-my invention consists in the peculiar constructions and combinations, all of which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and effective means for cleaning the cloth of dustcollectors, boltingreels, and similar mechanisms used in flour-mills.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my spring arms or wires. Fig. 2 shows the application of the arms toa frame of a handmachine. Fig. 3 is a cross section which shows their application to the frame of the dust-collector. Fig. 4 is a view showing their application to a bolting-reel. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail showing the sockets in the inner ribs, 6'.

A is a spr-ingarm, made of wire and having at one end a small lug, a, by which it is pivoted on ashaft, B, to be properly secured to a bed-frame. In Fig. 2 this frame is designated by O, and is an independentframe. There are a number of spring-arms secured to it, a row on each side. The frame is made tapering, so as to get between the folds of the dust-colleetor shown in Fig. 3. The forward ends of the spring-arms are secured to the forward bar of the frame-by means of guides c, which permit them to slip slightly. Their lugs av are pivoted on the shafts B, carried by the rear end of the frame, and the rear ends of the springarms project so that they are impinged upon by the cams d on shafts D, having intermeshing gears d, driven by a crank-Wheel, d with a crank-handle, (1. As these cams come successively into contact with the rear ends of the spring'arms, these latter are turned on their pivots and bend inwardlyat their censwarm. 236,368. (No model.)

ters, their forward .ends slipping. When released by the cams, they spring back and strike the adjacent cloth with a snap, thus giving it a jar and vibration which clears it of its accumulated dust. This application of thespring-arms forms ahand-machine which may be conveniently and effectively used upon the dust-collector, a cross-section of which is shown in Fig. 3. Thisldust collector (designated by E) is of the usual construction, its frame consisting of annular end heads, e, to which are secured the outer ribs, 6, and the inner ribs, 6 over which passes the flannel e in a stellated form.

The machine shown in Fig. 2 is inserted between the folds of the flannel when the dustcollector is not revolving, and its springarms act upon it as described. I may, however, apply the spring-arms in a permanent form to the dust-collector, as shown in Fig. 3, in which the inner ends are fitted in sockets 5 in the inner ribs and their outer ends pivoted to the shafts B, which are screwed by means of suitable bearings to the outer ribs. The projecting ends of the springarms are acted upon by the rotating cams F, or by the fixed stop F, and their action is the same as heretofore described. There would of course be springarms located between'all the folds of the flannel.

In Fig. 4 I show the spring-arms secured to the bolting-reel G, and operated in similar manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the cloth of a bolt or dust-collector, of a cloth-cleaner consisting of a frame, spring arms or wires passing beside the cloth, said arms having a sliding connection at one end of said frame and a pivoted connection near the opposite end, and a stop with which the projecting ends of the arms come in contact, whereby said arms are sprung and snapped upon the cloth, substantially as herein described.

2. A clot-h cleaner consisting of a frame, spring arms or wires fitted and sliding in guides at one end-of the frame and pivoted at its other end, and rotating cam-shafts carried by the frame and adapted to impinge upon the pivoted ends of the arms, whereby they are sprung and snapped, substantially as herein described.

3. The tapering frame O,having the rotating cam-shaft and gearing at one end, in combination with the spring arms or wires having one end sliding in sockets at one end of the frame and pivoted near their other ends on shafts at the other end of the frame, whereby their projecting ends are aflected by the rotating cams 10 to spring and snap said arms, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

\VILLIAM C. MEYER. Witnesses:

R. J. MODANIEL, A. WILzINsKI. 

